| Bib ID |
562289 |
| Format |
Audio, Online - Google Books |
| Author |
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| Access Conditions |
Access open for research, personal copies and public use. |
| Description |
1993- 1994.
4 digital audio tapes (ca. 360 min.)
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| Series |
Communists and the Left in the arts and community oral history project
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| Summary |
Shirley Andrews, former biochemist and folk dance teacher, speaks of family background & home in central Melbourne; her evening dance studies with Borovansky Ballet; her biochemistry studies, Melbourne University; contact with Council Against War and Fascism and her involvement with Unity Dance Group. She discusses Australian participation at Berlin Youth Festival; folk dance in Australia; the 1954 production of Reedy River; Victorian Folk Music Club; Council of Aboriginal Affairs; dance research for the Communist Party of Australia; folk revival & the communist movement; influences on Australian folk tradition; women & the Communist Party and dropping out of the Party. She speaks about Australian social dance; her views on music & dance; folk tradition & feminism; her biochemistry career; the defection of Russians on tour organised through Australia-Soviet Friendship Society; Radical Scientists Group; Aboriginal rights movement; the Council for Aboriginal Rights; Aboriginal Advancement League; union involvement in Aboriginal reforms; Jessie Street and other activists; 1967 Referendum; Communists and Aboriginal rights; Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders; the Namatjira court case and land rights.
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| Biography/History |
A noted Australian dance authority, Andrews trained as a biochemist and studied folk dance with the Borovansky Ballet before joining the Unity Dance Group. She became a member of the Communist Party of Australia in 1945 and was active in the Australian folk revival and the struggle for Aboriginal rights. |
| Notes |
Transcript unavailable.
Recorded on June 10, 1993; June 24, 1993; Sept. 14, 1993; Apr. 14, 1994 at Melbourne, Vic.
User access copy made.
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| Subjects |
Andrews, Shirley, - 1915-2001 - Interviews. | Borovansky Ballet. | Folk dance teachers - Victoria - Melbourne - Interviews. | Biochemists - Victoria - Melbourne - Interviews. | Communists - Victoria - Melbourne - Interviews. | Folk dance - Australia - History. | Aboriginal Australians - Civil rights.
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| Other authors/contributors |
Lowenstein, Wendy, 1927-2006
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| Related records |
Communists and the Left in the arts and community oral history project
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